5/7/2023 0 Comments The pull of the stars book![]() Firstly, Doctor Kathleen Lynn, who is based on a real historical figure and who is wanted by the Dublin police because she was involved in the 1916 Irish Uprising. She is at times aided by one of two women. ![]() We meet a young midwife named Julia Powers who finds herself alone on her shift with the responsibility for all of the care of these sick, pregnant women. Not much bigger than a closet, this ward is where they quarantine pregnant women who are stricken with influenza. Set in Ireland in 1918, it tells a fictional story based on the very real world of a midwife working in a Dublin hospital who is assigned to the maternity fever ward. As it turns out, it was good and it was doubly interesting because of the current pandemic. ![]() ![]() It is a story of the Great Flu or the 1918 Influenza, which we now call the Spanish Flu. I will start by saying that I thoroughly enjoyed the book The Pull of the Stars by Irish Canadian author Emma Donoghue. My book club chose it and when I first picked it up to read, I had forgotten that it was about a pandemic. ![]()
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